Ancient DNA provides a unique means to record genetic change through time and directly
observe evolutionary and ecological processes. Although mostly based on mitochondrial …

Late Quaternary Environmental Change addresses the interaction between human agency
and other environmental factors in the landscapes, particularly of the temperate zone …

Modern domestic plants and animals are subject to human-driven selection for desired
phenotypic traits and behavior. Large-scale genetic studies of modern domestic populations …

Human colonization of the New World is generally believed to have entailed migrations from
Siberia across the Bering isthmus. However, the limited archaeological record of these …

Extinctions can dramatically reshape biological communities. As a case in point, ancient
mass extinction events apparently facilitated dramatic new evolutionary radiations of …

Over the last decades the phylogeography and genetic structure of a multitude of species
inhabiting Europe and North America have been described. The flora and fauna of the vast …

One of the grand goals of historical biogeography is to understand how and why species'
population sizes and distributions change over time. Multiple types of data drawn from …

Abstract Background The Tibetan poplar (Populus szechuanica var. tibetica Schneid), which
is distributed at altitudes of 2,000-4,500 m above sea level, is an ecologically important …

Brown bears recolonised Europe rapidly after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), but there
has been debate about whether bear populations were confined to separate glacial refugia …

DNA preserved in degraded beetle (C oleoptera) specimens, including those derived from
dry‐stored museum and ancient permafrost‐preserved environments, could provide a …